[clug] New list?

[Daniel Pittman]

Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au> writes:
> On 19/08/10 22:25, Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> Eyal Lebedinsky<eyal at eyal.emu.id.au>  writes:

[...]

>> It isn't like this is uncommon, either: the NVIDIA binary blob is pretty
>> widely used...
>
> But no, while the license issue is valid, a technical question about how
> to get a driver going is mostly unrelated to the license. The discussion
> is reasonable, but better done in a separate thread.
>
> And my example here is about the often raised objection/acceptance of binary
> -only drivers yada yada. A good, hot topic that will probably *not* help the
> (virtual) OP getting their video going.

No, but it may well be entirely apposite: the most common example I run across
on the LUGs is that folks use the binary driver, have some other problem, and
then discover that they need to understand the licensing to solve the
"technical problem" of system crashes, etc.

> It is very common to see a thread, by the time it runs for a few dozen
> posts, to be pretty much off topic for the OP. I often reread the original
> item before participating in a thread if I fear that it lost its focus.

Sure.  This is the nature of discussion: because the OP (and anyone else)
can't control contributors, they will talk about what they think is
interesting and relevant.

I can assure you that efforts to control that really don't work out based on
over a decade of experience running and participating in these sort of things
over a wide range of topics, media, and contributors.

[...]

>> This also ignores the harder part of my question: how do you propose that this
>> is enforced?  How would offenders be penalized, and who would make the
>> judgement call on that?
>
> No no no no, I do not propose to enforce this is any way, just suggesting
> that people keep it in mind. After all this is a positively anarchic list
> of an anarchic group. No enforcers here that I know of.

Well, without enforcement I sadly see your effort as entirely doomed to
failure.  All it takes is one "bad apple" to ruin it entirely...

        Daniel

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